[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 117 (Wednesday, July 12, 2017)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E963]
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                   HONORING COLONEL RALPH L. SCHWADER

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                            HON. SAM GRAVES

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 12, 2017

  Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I proudly pause to recognize 
Colonel Ralph L. Schwader, Commander of the Missouri Air National 
Guard's 139th Airlift Wing. Colonel Schwader has dedicated years of 
service to not only the people of Missouri, but in defense of the 
United States of America. It is with great honor that I take a moment 
to recognize Colonel Schwader today.
   On paper alone, Colonel Schwader is an incredibly impressive man. 
His list of various commands, deployments, decorations and awards could 
fill volumes. However, what you will never see on paper are the people 
he has touched while on those deployments or commands. The lives he has 
touched while earning those decorations and awards. Colonel Schwader 
may never know the lives he has saved delivering supplies to soldiers 
in the field while deployed for Operations Desert Shield, Iraqi 
Freedom, and Enduring Freedom, among many other deployments and service 
stations. The lives other airmen he saved through training provided 
under his command by the Advanced Airlift Training Center. He may never 
fully know the gratitude for aid he helped provide to other Missourians 
during a flood or tornado or internationally to Haiti following the 
earthquake of 2010. It is on behalf of those people who haven't been 
able to give their thanks, myself and everyone in the Sixth 
Congressional District that I give my deepest thanks to Colonel 
Schwader for his dedication and service.
   Mr. Speaker, I proudly ask you to join me in recognizing Colonel 
Ralph L. Schwader for his decades of service to Missouri, the Sixth 
Congressional District and to the United States of America.

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